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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Yao Moise <yaokmoise@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 15:29:29 +0100
Subject: Hello dear,


Hello dear,

I sincerely seek your consent on this urgent and
absolute confidential issue. However, I am Mr. Yao Moise, the Director
General of my bank. One of our late customers made a numbered time
deposit valued $19.4Million USdollars before he died in an autocrash
years back. This account has been lying waste with nobody to come
farward for the claim and none of his paper works specified any
beneficiary. This account is long overdue and in accordance with the
country's economic policies the fund would soon be reverted into the
public treasury if nobody comes up for the claim, and I do not want it
to be forfeited for nothing.

I am contacting you so that you
would receive the money for us to share 50-50. If you are interested,
kindly reply to me immediately so that I can provide you with more
details about this.

I await your urgent response.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Yao Moise.

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